A lot of that is down to cost.
For an SSD from one of the really big noises in solidstate storage, this thing
is filthy cheap. It’s probably not the cheapest drive you can get in the 500GB
segment. But it’s very appealing given Crucial’s reputation for producing
decently reliable drives.
One day the Crucial MX100 w ill
hang up its spurs. It’ll retire from the solid-state storage game and get some
well deserved rest. But that day hasn’t quite come. Incredibly for a drive that
has never really been a world beater by any single metric, it remains relevant.
Just.
It’s also worth noting that at
this capacity, the MX100’s Marvell controller actually comes good. The 256GB
and smaller variants of the MX100 drop off when it comes to sequential read
performance due to the way the Marvell controller manages its memory channels.
But with all the channels populated in this 512GB version, you get peak
performance over 500MB/s for both reads and writes.
At this point, you’re probably wondering
why you’d bother paying more and we couldn’t really disagree. The only real
catch is some patchy performance in our performance consistency tests. It’s not
as awful as Plextor’s M6e drive. But it’s bad enough to remind you that you do,
in the end, get what you pay for.
That’s close enough to the best
SATA drives that it matters. Its 4K random performance is remarkably non-shabby
too, with writes over 100MB/s and tolerable 24MB/s reads. It puts in a very
decent effort in our 30GB file transfer test as well, beating even the mighty
Samsung 850 Pro.
Of course, that’s always been
true of the MX100 and until M.2 drives with NVMe support finally arrive, you
can make a pretty good argument for grabbing one of these on the cheap and
waiting for the next really big jump in storage performance to arrive.
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